Thursday, July 1, 2010

PLUM CAKE

I watched Amelie last weekend; it's one of my favorite movies. I love escaping into Amelies magical, quirky world of cracking crème brûlées and skipping stones. There is a scene near the end where she begins to make a cake while day dreaming of her crush running in the rain outside, tracking down yeast for her "famous plum cake" and every time I see this I dream of eating plum cake in France. Well I'm not in France...but I did make a plum cake! Amelie made aKouign-amann cake, which is quite a bit different to mine, there is no yeast in it, but it turned out to be a very moist and delicious plum cake.Last week, the company Oh! Nuts sent some bags of nuts my way to use for recipes. Of course, I was delighted! They sent me some unshelled pistachios, macadamia nuts and almond flour. So I would like to say a big thank you to Oh! Nuts.I'm very keen to make some macadamia nut cookies and lots of things using the pistachios. I decided to begin with the almond flour for this plum cake and turn it into a plum and almond cake. The almond flour will also come in very handy when I finally attempt to make macarons!Plum + Almond Cake:(9" by 9" square pan)

I love that movie! I do not remember the plum cake so I guess it is time to watch the movie again! But either way, your plum cake is perfect!! Moist and luscious, I can tell, and perfect for plums. Oh where are the plums? Not out on the market yet but when they are I want to try this cake. My men (and I) will adore it!

I can't imagine that Amélie's own plum cake could possibly be more scrumptious than yours! I've seen portions of the film but will definitely watch out for the plum cake recipe -- while, perhaps, enjoying a slice of your recipe. 8-D

Looks beautiful! As Amelie is my favorite movie, I also tried a plum cake, but used mashed plums, baby food actually. Very moist, but not nearly as pretty as yours. Great inspiration and I love the photos!

Agh! Amelie is my faaaavourite movie, and I've been obsessed with finding the perfect plum cake recipe ever since I first saw it. Very excited to try this! So far I really like the Plum Cake Cockaigne in Joy of Cooking...

I am always looking for recipes for cakes that have fruit in them to try and get us to eat more fruit. This one is bookmarked for me to try as soon as stone fruit come back in season here in Australia. I love Amelie, it never fails to make me happy!

I stumbled upon your blog while watching Julie & Julia. I was looking for a raspberry Bavarian cream recipe like the one they mentioned in the movie; yours is GORGEOUS. I loved the idea of putting them into stemless wine glasses. As I started reading the rest of your blog, I quickly realized this would become the blog to go to when I needed to revamp my love of all things baking. A truly, truly wonderful blog.

Not only my name is Amelia (close enough to Amelie), I have a bit of her quirky persona, and when i cut my her like her I almost looked like her, but plum cake is one of my favorites (plums and almost are perfect together)! Lovely photographs and thanks for reminding me of a wonderful movie!